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Evangelist
August 6, 2014
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Carey's Conversations

 

"The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you." 

Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise: A Play


 

Summer is rapidly drawing to a close and in just a few days the kids will all be back in school, and the light traffic pattern we have been enjoying will jam with commuters as the 'rush hour' returns. What free time many of us had will greatly diminish and we will wonder how we will get it all done. This seems to be the perfect time (tongue firmly planted in cheek) to ask people to add something else to their already cramped schedules.  However, the things that the church asks you to consider hold the potential to not only enhance our lives but to transform them! Would you prayerfully consider adding one or more of these upcoming new offerings for growth, service and fellowship:

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St. Luke's Family Movie Night This Sunday!

 

St. Luke's Episcopal invites you to a Back to School Indoor Movie Night. Bring a Friend or Two or Three and Join Us for Free Popcorn and a Screening of The Princess Bride. 4 p.m. this Sunday in St. Luke's Parish Hall. Bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. Feel free to bring your own picnic dinner or additional snacks. We'll have some fun movie-related activities for the kids afterwards. Grownups and teens can join in an informal discussion of the movie's spiritual themes and life lessons.  There's more to this cult film classic than just sword fights and fire swamps.
 

 

 Save this date:

August 23
rd there is a Young Adult Gathering at home of Carey and Shannon Stone from 4 to 7 to talk about new young adult class this fall at St. Luke's.

 

St. Luke's Endowment Fund Awareness

 

Gifts to the Endowment Fund can be through a variety of gift vehicles, in addition to cash, including securities, bequests in wills, charitable remainder trusts and other life income gifts, other trusts, life insurance policies, real estate and other property.

 

EfM at St. Luke's

 

If you are interested in EfM at St. Luke's, please contact John Rhodes or Joanna Seibert. 

  

August 30th Last Day for Used Shoe Drive at St. Luke's  

 

St. Luke's is holding a used shoe drive in collaboration with the Ozarks Water Project. We are asking that you donate your gently used shoes to help fund well and other clean water projects in countries like Kenya and Haiti. To find out more about this project and how you can help, click HERE.  Please place your shoes, each pair bundled or tied together separately, in the blue barrel in the Narthex. Sunday, August 30th is the last day to drop off shoes.  

  

On-Going Events and Programs

Deacon's Bench

 

Community of Hope at St. Luke's

 

Community of Hope is one of the most successful international programs designed to train volunteer lay leaders  in Christian communities for the ministry of lay chaplains for pastoral care. The program is bases on Benedictine practices leading to humility (a way to see ourselves), balancing (a way to see our time), and stability (a way to see spiritual growth).  Pastoral care is when a person is being "present" in a listening, compassionate, non-controlling manner to an individual or group for or the purpose of consciously representing God to them and seeking to respond to their spiritual needs. 

 

Blessing of the Backpacks

 

St. Luke's will have a Blessing of the Backpacks during both services on August 17th. Please have your children bring their school backpacks to church that Sunday.

 

 

ChurchMen's Breakfast

 

The ChurchMen will hold their monthly breakfast on Sat. August 16th, which is different than their regular schedule of the 2nd Saturday of the month. Cost is $5 and all are invited.

 

Adult Formation Schedule

 

Adult formation for summer 2014 9:15 am adult classroom: The adult formation class will be finishing the study of the Gospel of John and now will start the study of Acts.


Rally Day at St. Luke's


Please join us for Rally Day September 7th. There will only be ONE SERVICE at 10:30.  A potluck brunch is to follow. Please look for the sign up sheet in the Narthex. A commissioning of the teachers and blessing of the classrooms will happen during the service. Please be sure to attend as the children will get to meet their Sunday School teachers and become familiar with their classrooms.

Festival of the Senses 

 

The Meshugga Klezmer Band will perform as part of the St. Luke's Festival of the Senses Concert series at 6:00pm, Sunday, September 7, 2014. Meshugga's members are all Central Arkansans and promise an evening of laughter, tears, and love in the Klezmer tradition, a musical style and genre from Eastern European Jewish folk roots. Dinner catered by Lindsey's Hospitality begins at 6:00pm with music starting shortly thereafter. Festival of the Senses is supported by private sponsors and by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Ticket sales/reservations in advance or limited at the door. $15 Adults, $10 Children 5-15. For more information and to purchase tickets, please call St. Luke's (501) 753-4281 or come to the church office.   

 

 

 

Office Hours
Monday - Friday, 8 to 4 
Closed: Saturday and Sunday 
Office Phone: 501-753-4281 
Office Fax: 501-753-4322 
Email: [email protected]  
The office is located behind the church at 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, AR 
Prayer List

 Anne Gontermann, Bill Spradlin, Allen Baxter II, Jeff Spradlin, Hudson Woods, Paula, Helen Snipan, Louise Mabry, Caleb Jablonowski, Angela Corlett, Kate Toepher, Ryan Dillon Parker, Jim Johnson, Bill Moses, Gene DeLisa, Tom Hilton, Larry Maze, Joseph and Marilyn Murphy, Nina Goins, Grey Goodwin, Marilyn H, Edward Anderson, Janette Eddy and family, Cheryl Hall, Paula Kalina, Cole, Carson, Charlie Mac, and Cate Bryant, Jones Family, Bryant Family, Ann, Cherie, Zill Coleman, Gary Bolen, Sydnie Reedy, Jake Harrell, Will Plate, Rose Lewis, Aaron Dutton, Bradley Stinnett, Charles Ray Kennedy, Barbara Coker, Chris Morehart, Heather Smith, Lexi Probst, Virgie Lee Murphy, Tom Simmons, Ethan Kunz, Kay Reiter, Leslie Westbrook, Louise Ahren, the Bessette family, the Bala and Hodge families, Bill Spradlin, Nancy Langlais, Chris Schaefer, Megan Elizabeth Hall, Bill Crisler.  


 

Special ConcernsFor all the men and women of our Armed Forces, especially Justin, Joshua, Bret, Tim, Matt, Doug, Brian Mahoney, Brian Mennes, Frank Tate, Alex Schimelpfening, David Liem, Eddie Klein, Col. Dan Walrath, Justin, John Landis, Lucas Kunce, Justin Hensley.