The new school year is upon us! This Sunday, August 2, we will celebrate "Back to School Sunday," with blessing of the backpacks and other symbols of schoolwork and occupation, at the 9 a.m. service. Coffee Hour for the whole parish will be a potluck celebration in the Murphey Gallery. Bring your favorite finger food and join in the fun! This will also be our opportunity to meet the Rev. Canon Clark and his wife, Carol, as well as hear updates from the Wardens and Vestry. See you there!

As is our custom on first Sundays, donations of nonperishable food for St. Philip's food pantry, and paperback books for Read Between the Bars, will be gratefully accepted. However, Just Coffee, fair-trade coffee that supports a cooperative of coffee growers in Mexico, will be sold on Sunday, August 9, rather than the usual first Sunday of the month.

Our new Interim Rector, the Rev. Canon Frank Clark, officially began his tenure at St. Philip's on August 1. He will celebrate at all services on Sunday, August 2. During Coffee Hour in the Murphey Gallery, we will have the opportunity to gather with him and his wife, Carol. Canon Clark is also serving as our Search Consultant, and he will provide us with some updates during the 10:15 a.m. forum.

You can read more about Canon Clark here.

As of July 31, the Rev. Canon John Kitagawa is officially retired as St. Philip's Rector. We wish him and Kathy the best as their future unfolds. The Canons prescribe that the departing priest must absent himself from the parish until the new permanent Rector has served for at least a year. Although we will miss the Kitagawas, this is the most compassionate solution for all concerned. It provides them an opportunity to transition into their lives after St. Philip's, and it provides parishioners an opportunity to look forward, with the help of the Interim Rector, to St. Philip's future under new leadership.

The LGBTQ+A ministry invites you to a Rainbow Brunch to celebrate MARRIAGE EQUALITY and to help coordinate efforts for St. Philip's in hosting the 7th Annual MULTI-FAITH PRIDE SERVICE (on October 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.)
The brunch will be Saturday August 1, at 10:30 a.m. at the home of The Misters Rau (3040 N. Tecumseh Ct., Tucson 85715). What to bring: If your birthday falls in January/February: red food; March/April: orange food; May/June: yellow food; July/August: green food; September/October: blue food; November/December: purple food. RSVP to Cameron




The University of Arizona Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies joins with St. Philip's to present their annual summer lecture series, entitled "Protestantism and the Anglican Church in the Seventeenth Century," on Sundays in August beginning August 9, at 10:15 a.m. in the Music Center. This series of lectures will depict major events in this unstable but exciting century, one in which the Anglican Church played a major part. You are invited to attend and help support these future scholars of Reformation history.