Inside St. Stephen's
               
24 July 2016
  
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Pentecost Tidings
Growing Ministry, Community & Impact
 

Services
  
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
 Sunday Services
 
8:00am
Contemplative Eucharist

10:00am
Festive
Choral Eucharist
with Summer Choir
(Regular Choir on summer break)

9:45am
Summer Sundays

9:30-  11:30am - Childcare
w/Bebe Hansia &
Christine Trono
  
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Coffee Connections:
 

24 July
Team 1:
hosted by 
Sheryl Ott

Next Sunday -
31 July
Team 2:
hosted by
Ginny Preston

 

 

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Children
Youth 
News
 
This Sunday

Summer Sundays
9:45am
Andrew Hoybach
Donald Sung


Nursery
Bebe Hansia
Christine Trono
8:30 - 12:30pm
St. Stephen's 
Summer Music
Voices needed

SING IN THE 
SUMMER CHOIR:
 Everyone 
(includes all ages able to read text) is invited to sing in the summer choir
(while the regular St. Stephen's choir is on break.) 

Arrive up in the choir loft at 9am for a brief run through of the Sunday hymns any Sunday that works with your schedule.  Bring the whole family and sing as one.


HYMN SUGGESTIONS:  Is there a favorite hymn that you would like to sing this summer?  We're taking "requests". 
 Write down the name and hymn number
(it must be a hymn in our hymnal) and drop it in the little basket on the narthex table.  We'll make every attempt to honor your requests.
Thrift Shop Summer Volunteers
Volunteer today

Our participation in the Tiburon Thrift Shop brings important funds to St. Stephen's  Outreach programs.  We are in need of Volunteers, especially in July and August when many of our regular Staffers are away.  If you can spare three hours...10 am - 1 p m or 1 p m - 4 p m on one Thursday a month, or even substitute ocasionally, it would be so helpful. We are flexible on dates and all those who do Volunteer will tell you what a joyous ministry this is. Please contact June Campbell for more details: 415-797-6142, [email protected]
Teach Your Children WellTeach Your Children
Can you help this Sunday, 
July 24 or August 14?

St. Stephen's children need you! Teachers needed for this Sunday, 
July 24th.  There is also an opening on
August 14, however dogs are invited to church that day and children may prefer to attend with their dogs. Please sign up to share your art, craft, music, gardening, or storytelling skills with the St. Stephen's children.  The creativity is up to you, or lessons may be borrowed for use. Don Sung and Andrew Hoybach can be reached for any questions.


Sign up for July 24th or August 14th using the link below!

Volunteers
Artist-in-Residence Display
Virginia Knepper Doyle
JULY
Completed over a period of a year between 2014 and 2016, these collages were created in memory of Ginny's late husband, Jack Doyle, a member of this parish, who passed away in July of 2014 

Living St. Stephen's
This Sunday
Services at 8am & 10am
Summer Sundays - 9:45am
Farewell to Malcolm FrMalcolm
Special Coffee Hour
This Sunday
July 24
11:15am

Please join Father Malcolm on his last Sunday in the pulpit this Sunday.  Be sure to attend the special coffee hour following the 10am service to share with him your appreciation for his time with us at St. Stephen's.
A Message from Father Malcolm
This Sunday
24 July
Prayer
Dear Friends,

Our Father.

We have been trained so carefully over the last fifty years or more to move away from an anthropomorphic God to understanding that the power and majesty and glory cannot be contained in human form. But my heart rebels. The image of God as a loving father is deeply engrained, and gratefully received.

This week, Jesus teaches to pray to that father, the one in heaven. And he teaches us to be persistent in doing it.

As I leave this wonderful parish to its new adventures, you can count on my persistent prayers. I ask you to pray for me.

God bless you all!
Fr. Malcolm
Earth and Altar Garden Garden Beans
Every Sunday

Please meet this Sunday during the coffee hour in the Earth and Altar Vegetable Garden (behind the Parish Hall) to Shamar (watch) and Avad (work) to produce food for the hungry and needy (see Genesis 2:7 and 2:15). Families and children are welcome.  

This week's Shamar-Avad leads are Katie & David McGee.
    Volunteers Needed for Assisting in the Church Office volunteer_signup2_hdr.jpg

With Wendy's departure and Malcolm's upcoming departure, we will be very short of staff in our church offices for the next six weeks until our new rector arrives in late August. We would like to experiment with a program for parish members to volunteer to help in the church office between 9am and 11am on weekdays (starting ASAP).
 
This would ensure that we can answer the phone, accept deliveries and respond to visitors during these morning hours.  There is really no training necessary, and it would be an enormous assistance.
 
Ideally we would like to find volunteers who can sign up for the same weekday morning over the next 4 to 6 weeks.  But if you can only sign up to help on a few specific days, that would be equally helpful.
 
Can You Help?  If you can volunteer, please send an email to Bob McCaskill at:


(just a convenient email address that will go to Bob)
 
Indicate what days (from 9am to 11am) over the next 6 weeks you could be in the office to help. Bob will then respond to your email.  Thanks.
Coming Up
Staff Announcement Thank you

After more than a year of loyal and devoted service, Donna Stewart will be leaving St. Stephen's and pursuing other ventures. July 20 is her last day.

We will miss her early morning smile and her commitment to the parish as a spiritual as well as a financial enterprise. We wish her all the best.

Fr. Malcolm
Forum on Monastic Life, Retreat, and Centering Prayer
7 August

Brother Bede Healey, OSB, Ph.D., of The Hermitage in Big Sur will be our guest preacher on August 7. A clinical psychologist and Benedictine monk, Brother Bede will also host an 11:15 a.m. forum on monastic life, retreat, and centering prayer.
Camp Create

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A few highlights for the many who wished us well, sent donations and/or volunteered. It was truly a magical and successful week.

* Counselors. For the first time, we had professional community-building exercises during training, a handbook was developed, a fair wage paid for their time. A debrief meeting with Alberta Buller was part of each day. A lounge was provided for their breaks, with their own food. The result was that the counselors developed a camaraderie earlier and worked at a higher level of teamwork and leadership, with a strong emphasis on the safety of our campers. They wrote thoughtful evaluations with suggestions for how they might make camp even better next year.

* Artist/Teachers. All four of our teachers had been at Create before and all are extraordinary. A collegiality, cohesiveness and control in the classes was evident. The campers tried new things, created at inspired levels, learned about water (this year's theme) and were respectful.

* Volunteers. Camp Create had the largest number of volunteers than in any previous year with many newcomers. Many have already asked to return in 2017 when we have plans for more shifts.

* Congregational support. Members of our church donated a record amount to support this ministry. With large and small donations, we had the largest number of financial donors than in any previous year.

* Institutional support. Grants provided 68% of the costs of the camp. A very special thank you to the Kimball Foundation and the Marin Community Foundation, our largest benefactors. Without them, truly there is no Camp Create which must raise funds each year to operate.

* The campers. Adventurous and well-behaved from different cultures and neighborhoods. See their many faces in the many places of Camp Create on a link that will appear in Tidings and on our website. All photos are by Rev. Alberta Brown Buller. More are at http://www.dropbox.com/ Login: [email protected]. Password: WaterWays.

With much gratitude to...

Volunteers who worked 5 days or more during the week. Wow! Anne Brown, Ginny Doyle, Olive DePonte, Anne Hammer, Ken Hammer, Jo Ann Haseltine, Mary-Ann Milford, Pam Martori

The legion of volunteers who worked a shift or several: Molly Arthur, Bruce Auld, Frances Barbour, Linda Berg, Barbara Berling, DeWitt Bowman, Bill Brinkman, Dave Buller, June Campbell, Lois Cannady, Beverly Healey, John Hirten, Jane Jacobs, Tucker MacLean, Lilian Murray, Ginny Preston, Zebiya Rigby, Jeannie Richards, Sally Williamson, Judy Wilson and Kathy Winkler.

The Rev. Alberta Buller who was extraordinary as part of the Camp Create paid staff, as Chaplain and in charge of our counselors and their training, and as a volunteer as the camp photographer and chronicler of the magic of the camp.

The Rev. Wendy Cliff who left exceptional notes and lovingly prepared a first-time lay team to direct the week of Camp. All are still standing - and smiling.

Volunteer Helen Sandeman for her beautiful design used for tee shirts and this year's logo.

Volunteer Molly Arthur for coordinating the lovely Friday night hospitality and pot luck dinner.

The parent volunteers from the Canal. Two parents each day worked long, hard days in the kitchen and a small army helped with dishes and clean-up after the festival.

The St. Stephen's staff who endured, with grace, a week+ of disruption and gave an assist to us in many ways.

Our in-kind donor ExtraFood.org (Kathy Carver) for weeks' worth of milk and yogurt, a million blueberries, baked goods and farmers market fruits and vegetables - all delivered to us at no cost.

The Planning Committee for a year's worth of meetings, inspiration and planning: Anne Brown, Wendy Cliff, Olive DePonte, Jo Ann Haseltine, Sharon Hilpert, Marisa Jennings, Pam Martori and Anne Moffet.

The many donors who supported this event, in large and small ways. You made a big difference.

We humbly apologize if your name has been omitted but thank you too.

 
If you still wish to be part of 2016 Camp Create, you can send a check to the church, marked for Camp Create. If you wish to be part of 2017 Camp Create, contact Pam Martori; planning begins in the early fall.

Save These Dates!

St. Stephen's On the Gro Calendar:

JULY
17, 24, 31 - Sunday Services 8 & 10am
24 - Father Malcolm's last Sunday here
25 - Knitting Ministry - 10:30am
28 - Southern Marin food ministry
28 - August 8 - Dee out of office

August
7, 14, 21,28 - Sunday Services 8 & 10am
7 - Brother Bede Healey preachers
7 - Healing Sunday - 8 & 10am
8 & 22 - Knitting Ministry - 10:30am
11 - Homeward Bound Food Ministry
14 - This Sunday - Dogs invited to church - 10am service
21 - Father Ellsworth's First Sunday at Stephen's - 8 & 10am
22 - Vestry Meeting - 7pm
25 - Southern Marin Food Ministry
28 - Welcome Back Sunday - Sunday School begins - 9:45am

Ongoing:
1st Monday: The Outdoor Club Explorers - on break July-September
2nd/4th Mondays: Women's Knitting - 10:30am
Thursdays:  Contemplative Prayer - 8:30am   
Thursdays: 10am-1 or 1-4pm - Volunteers at the Thrift Shop
Thursday: Choir Practice - 7:30pm (on summer break)
2nd Thursday of the Month: Homeward Bound Meals
4th Thursday of the Month: Westminster Hot Lunch
1st Sunday of the Month: Healing Prayers at 8 & 10am 
Sundays: Children's Music with John after the 10am service ~ after 10am service (on summer break)
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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

3 Bay View Avenue

PO Box 97

Belvedere, CA 94920

415.435.4501