This Thursday, Bishop Benhase will officiate together with the Rev. George Muir at the Requiem Mass for the Rev. Dcn. Mary-Kathleen Blanchard. See below for more information.

This Friday and Saturday, Canon Logue will be a presenter for Duke Divinity School's All Things New, a conference of ideas and conversations about new ways of doing and being church. He will lead two sessions on Relational Evangelism and Church Planting.

This Palm Sunday, Bishop Benhase will make his visitation to Christ the King, Valdosta.

Canon Logue will serve this Holy Week at the Episcopal Church in Okatie, SC.

The Diocese of Georgia mourns the sudden loss of the Rev. Deacon Mary-Kathleen Blanchard, who died on March 19. A memorial service will be held at Saint Paul's Church on Thursday, March 26 at 4 p.m.

Bishop Benhase said, "Mary-Kathleen epitomized the heart of the diaconate. She was passionate in her concern for those hurting and marginalized in our culture. She was not only passionately concerned. She also actively engaged in service to them. We will sorely miss her witness, but we rest assured that she now lives in that place where there is no grief but life eternal."

The EDAT Community Garden on the grounds of Good Shepherd, Thomasville, has been named a Garden of the Month by The Rambler Rose Garden Club. The club is one of seven established by the Thomasville Garden Club in 1948, with a total of nine clubs now under its umbrella. The Thomasville Garden Club organized in 1914 "to cultivate flowers, to create civic pride; to add to the beauty that nature has already so bountifully given us; to make Thomasville a more lovely place in which to live, and to foster in our children a love of the beautiful." As a part of that mission, the Rambler Rose Garden Club recognizes gardens of merit in the community.

The community garden is one of the focal points for the Episcopal Development Agency of Thomasville whose overall goal is the social, physical, cultural, and spiritual revitalization of the area of town that surrounds Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. The garden is used both as an educational tool and to assist in feeding the neighborhood. 

  

Since its founding in 2013 by the three Episcopal Churches in Thomasville--St. Thomas, All Saints, and Good Shepherd--EDAT has partnered with local agencies dedicated to the revitalization of the built environment along with those dedicated to health, education, culture and employment. EDAT is governed by a duly constituted, volunteer, local Board of Directors which represents the three churches and the community. Pictured above are EDAT's Garden Supervisor Abby Barber with the Agency's Executive Director Keith Jenkins.

More than 100 campers have already registered for Summer Camp, with 21 of these being new campers. 11 of the 20 slots available for the Parent and Child sessions have also been filled. Last year, only one of the summer camp sessions filled to capacity and had to turn away campers. This year the registration is going faster. If you want to register a camper for this summer, there is no time like the present.
 

 

Camp sessions
June 14-20 High School Completed Grades 9-12
June 21-27 St. Joseph & Mary I Completed Grades 3-5
July 5-11 St. Peter I Completed Grades 6-8
July 12-18 St. Joseph & Mary II Completed Grade 3-5
July 19-25 St. Peter II Completed Grades 6-8

 

Tuition for regular session is $430 per camper.
For more information visit HoneyCreek.org.

 

Click here to register

 

New Camp for Children in grades K-2!
June 21-23 Parent & Child I Completed Grades K-2 + Adult
July 12- 14 Parent & Child II Completed Grades K-2 + Adult

 

The Parent & Child sessions run during the Camp St. Joseph & Mary sessions (Sunday through Tuesday). They serve as an introduction to camp culture for both the parent and the child (k-2nd grade). Parent and child are invited to participate fully in all camp activities as much (or as little) as they are comfortable. Tuition for each session Parent & Child session is $320 for one parent and one child ($85 for each additional child). Tuition covers room and board in a private lodge room, special activities, art supplies, camp photo and camp t-shirt.

Have you ever wanted to be a hero?  I mean, have you ever wanted to fly or ever dreamed of being a firefighter?  Many of us have.  Come explore what it takes to be a hero at Spring Rally.

During the weekend, we will talk about what it takes to be a hero, what is our hero's code for following Christ, how to start a movement, and so much more. Participants will also get input into next year's youth programs.

Spring Rally will be held May 1-3, 2015 at Honey Creek. 

It is open to those in 6th-12th grade.

This will be an awesome event. On the design team for this event are Roger Speer of St. Luke's Rincon, Father Lonnie Lacy of St. Anne's, Tifton, serving as Spiritual Director, and Caroline Johnson of St. Luke's, Hawkinsville, serving as head of music, and Bishop Benhase will also be stopping by for part of the weekend. If you are interested in helping with this event, please contact Elizabeth Burns.

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

 

 

At left, on March 17, St. John's, Savannah, followed the Holy Eucharist at 9:30 am with a Children's Talk for St. Patrick, followed by the collection and expulsion of snakes from the parish garden. Here "St. Patrick" exchanges plastic snakes for a prize. At right, a clean up crew gathered this past Saturday to work on the grounds at All Saints, Tybee island.

 

   

The Youth of King of Peace, Kingsland, learned about the needs and concerns homeless persons in a lock in at the church.

 

Above are pictured just some of the energized parishioners in a kick ball game held this weekend at Christ Church, Cordele.

 

The Rev. Sierra Wilkinson Reyes prays with children at Christ Church, Savannah, during Sunday's children's church in the undercroft.

 

The congregation of St. Patrick's, Pooler, sent the photo above (taken after the Eucharist) in a text to their Vicar, the Rev. Joshua Varner, who was at Honey Creek this past weekend leading a retreat (see below).

  
 Youth from across the Diocese who are taking part in this summer's Mission Trip to the Dominican Republic gathered this past weekend at Honey Creek to prepare for that journey. Photos of a team building exercise and the Eucharist on Saturday evening are shown above. the group is pictured below.